Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...most important political office in the world brings were evident on the morning after Jack Kennedy won his election. At 10 a.m. Kennedy walked the 100 yds. or so from his Hyannisport house to Brother Bobby's for a staff meeting. When he entered the living room, all present rose-the first time they had ever done so for their boss. They were all old friends and hardly roistering ones, but the occasion was reminiscent of young Prince Hal, becoming King Henry V and having to abandon his old carefree intimacy with Falstaff...
...Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes, to gain allies for Peking's struggle for world recognition...
...bars and bar girls on every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...
...college football's top clash, fired-up Iowa turned the ends of rugged Ohio State with surprising ease, sprinted to a 35-12 victory to give retiring Coach Forest Evashevski a gomg-away present. Iowa thus tied for the Big Ten lead with previously undefeated Minnesota, which was upset by erratic Purdue, 23-14. Among the nation's few undefeated teams, Missouri obliterated its longtime nemesis, Oklahoma, 41-19; Mississippi held tough Tennessee to 24 yds. by land and air to win easily 24-3; and Yale proved it was the most emphatic thing in the de-emphasized...
...musical world. Singers and other soloists of course know better, and so last week did the audiences flocking to hear Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...